[HN Gopher] A Civil War - Inside Switzerland's Astonishingly Pol...
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       A Civil War - Inside Switzerland's Astonishingly Polite Armed
       Conflict of 1847
        
       Author : DrZootron
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2022-01-18 10:02 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | m_mueller wrote:
       | Much of this was thanks to General Dufour afaik, the federalist
       | General. Can't think of a better way to navigate 150k combatants
       | to come out of this war basically unharmed, on both sides. The
       | conclusion was foregone, but convincing everyone of this was the
       | tricky part.
        
       | eatonphil wrote:
       | On a tangent, the list of Liechtenstein-Switzerland military
       | conflicts on Wikipedia is hilarious and kind of cute.
       | 
       | For example:
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       | > On 26 August 1976, just before midnight, 75 members of the
       | Swiss Army and a number of packhorses mistakenly took a wrong
       | turn and ended up 500 metres into Liechtenstein at Iradug, in
       | Balzers. The Liechtensteiners reportedly offered drinks to the
       | Swiss soldiers.
       | 
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liechtenstein%E2%80%93Switzerl...
        
       | Victerius wrote:
       | Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they
       | had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced
       | Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In
       | Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of
       | democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
       | 
       | - Harry Lime, The Third Man
        
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